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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 16 May 2008 11:49 AM PST
Douglas Edwards, the co-founder of Handmark, has been named CEO of uclick, a provider of digital content, including comics and games on the Web and mobile phone. Uclick is owned…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 16 May 2008 02:40 AM PST
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) announced today that its UK unit has been awarded a license for the country’s chunk of spectrum in the 1452-1492 MHz range, the so-called L Band, recently…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 10:18 AM PST
Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 08:53 AM PST
NBC Sports today announced its biggest mobile endeavor yet—NBC 2Go, a mobile TV station on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO service and MobiTV service. NBC provided a bit more context to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 12:01 AM PST
If you haven’t heard about this yet, join the club. While Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and others have been working diligently within the wireless industry to roll out mobile TV, a…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 May 2008 04:04 PM PST
-- Knight Foundation awards digital community news projects: The Knight Foundation is awarding $5.5 million to 16 different projects which won a content for transforming community news through digital technology,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 May 2008 02:55 PM PST
Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:46 AM PST
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) shares rose today after an analyst ungraded the stock following the mobile game publisher’s solid Q1 results yesterday. The stock is up today about 40 cents,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:11 AM PST
After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 08:44 AM PST
South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 02:05 PM PST
-- CelluMall is the latest effort by Cellufun to generate revenue. Cellufun runs an ad-supported mobile games community, and the idea behind CelluMall is that players will be able to…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 01:37 PM PST
LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 May 2008 09:31 AM PST
Mozes, a company that lets bands interact with fans over mobile, has raised an $11.5 million second round from Maveron and return backers Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 05:45 AM PST
Mobile games firm Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) announced first quarter revenue of $20.6 million, up from $15.7 million compared to the same period a year ago. They also reported a…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 01:00 AM PST
-- *Glu* unveils “Mystery Case” game: Today, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is unveiling “Mystery Case Files: Agent X,” a game designed and developed by Big Fish Games for mobile phones…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 08:00 PM PST
The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 09:57 AM PST
Buongiorno, the Italian mobile entertainment company, today announced Q1 results for the period ended March 31, reporting that following the acquisition of iTouch, the company has increased revenues and profits…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 May 2008 05:42 PM PST
-- O2 and Samsung are teaming up to sell exclusive content for the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. Wallpapers, true tones, voice tones and…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 09 May 2008 06:02 AM PST
-- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) Powers Revamped VZ Navigator: Digital map provider NAVTEQ has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), to use its NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile to power the…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 03:53 PM PST
Rafat is reporting over on our sister site PaidContent.org that RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) says it will spin-off its global casual games business into an independent company by the end of…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 08 May 2008 02:29 PM PST
Mobile music remains a challenging business for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which reported today in its second quarter earnings ending March 31 that mobile remains “soft” as ringtone sales…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 May 2008 01:26 PM PST
A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being the most noticed). NBC is…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 May 2008 04:15 PM PST
-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 04:00 AM PST
PlayPhone, a mobile content company based in San Jose, CA, plans to announce this morning that it is merging with London-based Pitch Entertainment Group to expand its coverage to more…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 08:00 PM PST
A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Google…
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